Originally Posted by
pkskyali
Making up facts is what you are doing in constantly posing the contents of a woman's uterus, a fetus, as a baby. You think just talking about a fetus as if it were a baby, it somehow actually becomes a baby. The anti-abortionists such as yourself cannot be trusted to report scientific facts when you will not even apply the right language to what you are talking about. This is even more dishonest then just lying.
You are just sustaining a narrative, you are not reporting facts. You do not even care about facts. The simplest fact of the matter here is that when a woman is pregnant, the only life that matters here is the life of the woman. Without the life of the woman, there is no gestation. No woman, no pregancy. The woman is the host of the growth that takes a single cell to a fetus mature enough to sustain life as an infant. At which point she undergoes labor to expell the growth that she contained in her body, sustaining it with her blood, her oxygen and the nutrients of her body. When the fetus becomes mature enough, then dramatic changes occur in the fetus and the pregnant woman and this triggers labor. It also triggers the awakening of the fetus which completes after it is born and begins breathing on its own. The mind of a fetus does not function like a conscious being, there is not enough oxygen available to it to sustain a conscious mind. An infant, now born, now breathing on its own is a conscious being and not before.
The neurology of gestating organisms is one of things independent of the host female. There is no direct link between the woman's neurology and that of the gestating organism. But it only functions in the most elementary way, the development of a personality or consciousness would just get in the way at this point. The idea that somehow you can form a relationship with something even as well developed as a late fetus is false and has no scientific basis. It is all reflexes and regulation at this point.
Responsible child bearing starts with being willing to concede that there are always circumstances that suggest terminating the pregnancy at any time. The first person to consider in such a decision is the woman bearing the pregnancy herself. Her pregnancy is not a person and is of no consideration in such a decision.